THE c H u R c H OF R 0 M E, Book IV, M ET A PH 0 R. P A R A L L E L. for which God cloth feverely hers, the Lord will rerr.ember her with Jud~threaten her. Behold, I am againfl ment, and Seventy, when he comes to make In– thee, 0 thou mofl Proud, faith the quiGtion for Blooc, and avenge upon her the In– E ord God of Hojls: For thy Day is jury done to Sion: Rev. xviii. 7· Hvw much jhc come, the 'I"ime that 1will vi)it thee, bath glorified herfelf, and lived deliciou)Jy, fo much Ifa. xiii. '9· ]er. 1. 3 1. 'J"orment and Sorrow give her, &c. X. Chaldea, or Literal Bab)'lon, X. R.vme, or Myftery Babylmt, is not only a was not only a People of great People of great l'omp, and Pnde, arrayed with Pomp, Pride, and Covetoutnefs, Purple, Scarlet, Gold, Pearl, and precious Stone'. but of great Riches and Treafures. but ihe iits upon many Waters, is Covetous, as 'J"hou that dwe!Jejl upon many Wawell as Proud, and full of Treafures: And indeed ters, abundant in 'J;·eafures, thine it muft needs be fo; for belides the Gifts that were 'End is come, the End of thy C<v.etfirft given in the Time of Conjlantine, as is pre– ouflzefs, Jer. 1. 37· and h. '3· tended, fhe bath made a Prey upon Nations, a Spot! upon Saints, had the Gifts of Kings, had vaft Revenues fettled upon her Orders and Clergy; fhe has peeled the People by fel– ling Pardons, and Indulg.:nces, raifing Peter- Pence, and the like ; fo horribly co– vetous is fhe, that fhe is not willing any fhould go to Heaven without the Gift of Money to Holy Church, by which flight fne is grown fo exceedin.g Rich, and full of Treafure, that fhe can afford a golden Cup to prefent her intoxicatir.g Wine in, to be cloathed with Scarlet, decked with Gold, Pearl, and precious Stones'; fi1e makes the Merchants of the Earth rich that do trade with her; fhe hath indeed, as a full Aniwer to her Type, Lam. i. 10. ftretched forth her Hand upon all the pleafant Things of thofe Countries and Kingdoms where fhe hath fat as a Ql,1een. XI. Chaldea, or Literal BabJlon, XI. Rome, or Myftdry Ba-by/on, hath fpoiled did fpoil the Meetings of God's the Meeting' of God's People, the true Profeffors People, made the Ways of Sion of the Religion of the holy Jefus, by driving the to moum, becaufe Men could not Gofpel, Sion, or Church, into the Wildernefs; come t• the folemn Affemblies, Lam. and oftentimes burning and plucking down their i. 4· 'J"he Ways of Sion do mourn, Meeting-Places, and petfecuting her Mini!lers, /;ecaufe none can come to her folemn driving th~m into Corners, frighting and difptrling Feajls, or Affembltes. Allher Gates thetr Auditors, by Fmes, Io1pnfonments, Banifh– are defolate, her Priejls, or Miniments, and c1uel Ufages.; fo that her Miniller.s fters, do jigh, her 1/irgins are afhave been made to figh, her Gates be.come defo– jlitted, and jhe is in Bitternefs, &c. late, none being·fuftcted to enter withOJ.tt Dancrer,; · and their Virgins, the beft Sort of Profeffors, have been affiitl:ed: The faithful Paftors grieving, becaufe they might not preach to their Flocks; and the.-People mourning, becaufe they could not hear the pJeafant Voice of .their Paftors, by Reafon of Violence, &c. . . :X::II. Cha/dea,orLiteraiBabylon, XII. Rome, or Myftery Baby/on, hath made the .made the worft of Men, Chief wodl: of Men Rulers, or Chief among the Nati.– among the Nations, and Provinces, ons; not fuffering Men to bear Office in Kt~g.over which fhe ruled, fuffe,ring dams, Cities, or Corporarions, nor indeed cam– none to come to Preferment, but forrably to buy and fell, unlds -they would relin– fuch as were Enemies to Sion, and qctifh Goodne!s and Religion, and receive the the Ways of Worfhip by her ob- Mark of the Beaft in their Forehead, or Right– ferved, Lam. i. 5· Her Adverfahands, viz. publicly profefs, or privately !ubfcribe ries profper, and are the Chief,,& c. to fuch lnj unftions as were againft their Confciences, and inconfitlent with their Religion: Who can be.Cardinals, unlefs-they do own the Pope ? Wh0 can be Kings, Without being depofed or poifoned, that fubfcribe not to the See o f Rome? V.1ho can .fir fafe as Go– vernors over any Cities, where !he fits as ~een, Without truckling under that Yoke of Servitude, that fhe puts·upon the Necks of all her'Vaffals? R.ev.xiii. 16,_17· _XIII. Chaldea, or Litera!BabJXIII. Rame, or Myftery Babylo11, bath been Ion, was guilty of !hrv.ing, or faguilty of this moll: horrid Cruelty, by forcing mifhino- the Children of Sion, in tender and heavtnlv-born Souls, both Minifters the Days of her,Power and Reign, .and People, from rl;eir Dwellings, and that in .a which made the Prophet cry our, moft bitter Seafon, driving them up into Corners, Lam. i. 19. iv. 7• 8, 9• 10. and .where they have been kept, till fiaLved w .Deatq, 3 ~
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